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Question
Find one more example which shows that a beautiful appearance is not enough.
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Solution
Another example that shows that a beautiful appearance is not enough is that of the stag and his antlers. The stag was very proud of his beautiful antlers and ashamed of his spindly and ugly legs. One day, he was chased by hunters. His beautiful antlers got entangled in the low branches of a tree, and the hunters nearly caught and killed him. He got his antlers free just in time and escaped because his spindly legs helped him to run fast, away from the hunters.
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B.1) Fill in the Balloons with suitable ideas from the poem:
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They hold so many keys, so many things they can show.
We all will read the other side this I firmly believe
And the elderly are closest oh what clues we could retrieve.
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They’ve let go of the frivolous and kept things that are dear
The memories of so sweet, of loved ones that were near.
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